Nina Watts – Research Office

The Altmetric Attention Score now in WestminsterResearch

by Nina WattsImpact, Open Research, Public and Community Engagement, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 11, 2023May 11, 20230 comments

In order to record and demonstrate the impact beyond traditional metrics such as impact factors and citation scores, our research outputs have received, we have added the Altmetrics donut display to our WestminsterResearch institutional repository records. What are Altmetrics? Altmetrics (or alternative metrics) measure the impact of a scholarly research output based on online activity, …

Publish Open Access with ACM

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications March 13, 2023March 13, 20230 comments

ACM OPEN enables all corresponding authors affiliated with our institution to publish scholarly articles with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on a completely open access basis without needing to pay any individual article processing charges (APCs). All research articles and conference proceedings with a corresponding author from the University of Westminster are made OA …

Open Access Week 2022: Open Access and Practice Based Research

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, REF, Repository, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 27, 2022October 26, 20220 comments

Today’s post focuses on how practice-based research may benefit from being made more effectively shared. At Westminster we have prioritised improving our institutional repository (WestminsterResearch) to better support non-text based (also known as non-traditional) output types.See article : Evans, Jenny, Nina Watts, Taylor Mudd, and Tom Renner. 2022. “From Legacy to Next Generation: A Story …

Open Access Week 2022: Events Coming Up

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised October 12, 20220 comments

International Open Access Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice, 24-30 October, 2022 This year the focus of International Open Access Week is ‘Open for Climate Justice’. During the week we will be releasing daily blog posts from our open access week team at Westminster. Look out for these from 24 October. Events & Resources from …

Publish Open Access in the American Psychological Association (APA) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch August 19, 2022September 20, 20230 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in 88 hybrid journals in the PsycArticles portfolio, excluding the Hogefe collection of journals. This agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author who is …

Publish Open Access with American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 13, 2022March 13, 20230 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of American Chemical Society (ACS)’s hybrid or fully Open Access (gold) journals. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author …

Publish Open Access with Elsevier Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications March 30, 2022March 13, 20230 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no further charge to the author. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles in a wide variety of participating Elsevier journals across disciplines through gold open access. To be eligible: You must be …

ORCID Integration with the VRE

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Repository, Research Data Management, Researcher Profiles, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch February 14, 2022August 4, 20220 comments

ORCID link in the VRE ORCID is a unique research identifier belonging to you which distinguishes you from every other researcher. It allows you to store together all your research outputs within your account and share them between platforms. The VRE is now able to push data to, and receive data from, your central ORCID …

What are Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and how can you use them?

by Nina WattsImpact, Open Access, REF, Repository, Research Data Management, Researcher Profiles, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 29, 20210 comments

In our final blog post to mark International Open Access Week 2021, we aim to explain what is mean by Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), why they are important, and how you can use them as a researcher to ensure your research is better indexed and identified to you as the creator. We expand upon the introduction to …

Advanced Portfolios in WestminsterResearch

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Repository, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 27, 20210 comments

Continuing our series of daily blog posts to mark International Open Access Week 2021, we wish to let you know of the exciting improvements to our repository that will allow all researchers, not just those who carry out practice based research, to create over-arching portfolios or collection records, to group and promote your research. We have …